US4623021A - Hydraulic fracturing method employing a fines control technique - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to a method for completing a well that penetrates a subterranean formation and, more particularly, relates to a well completion technique for controlling the production of fines from the formation.
- a string of casing is normally run into the well and a cement slurry is flowed into the annulus between the casing string and the wall of the well.
- the cement slurry is allowed to set and form a cement sheath which bonds the string of casing to the wall of the well. Perforations are provided through the casing and cement sheath adjacent the subsurface formation.
- Fluids such as oil or gas
- These produced fluids may carry entrained therein fines, particularly when the subsurface formation is an unconsolidated formation. Produced fines are undesirable for many reasons. Fines produced may partially or completely clog the well, substantially inhibiting production, thereby making necessary an expensive workover.
- these fines are quiescent causing no obstruction to flow to the wellbore by the capillary system of the formation.
- the fines are dispersed, they begin to migrate in the production stream and, too frequently, they incur a constriction in the capillary where they bridge off and severely diminish the flow rate.
- the agent that disperses the quiescent fines is frequently the introduction of a water foreign to the formation.
- the foreign water is often fresh or relatively fresh compared to the native formation brine.
- the change in the water can cause fines to disperse from their repository or come loose from adhesion to capillary walls.
- a fracturing treatment employing 40-60 mesh gravel pack sand will prevent the migration of formation sands into the wellbore.
- clay particles or fines are also present and are attached to the formation sand grains.
- These clay particles or fines sometimes called reservoir sands as distinguished from the larger diameter or coarser formation sands, are generally less than 0.1 millimeter in diameter and can comprise as much as 50% or more of the total reservoir components.
- Such a significant amount of clay particles or fines, being significantly smaller than the gravel packing sand can migrate into and plug up the gravel packing sand, thereby inhibiting oil or gas production from the reservoir.
- the present invention is directed to a method for controlling fines or sand in an unconsolidated or loosely consolidated formation or reservoir penetrated by at least one wellbore where hydraulic fracturing is used in combination with control of the critical salinity rate and the critical fluid velocity.
- At least one wellbore is placed into said formation.
- a hydraulic fracturing fluid is injected into the formation to increase the yield of hydrocarbonaceous fluids from the formation by producing fractures.
- a proppant is placed into the fracture to prevent its closing.
- the gravel pack effect of the proppant is improved by injecting ahead of the main body of proppant a sand of a mesh smaller than the propant. This prevents the formation fines or sands from entering into the fracture.
- a conventional gravel pack is added after fracturing to insure communication between the well-bore and the fracture.
- the fines or sands can either be fixed in place or transported deep within the formation by controlling the critical salinity rate and the critical fluid flow velocity. In one embodiment, this is accomplished by determining the critical salinity rate and the critical fluid flow velocity of the formation or reservoir surrounding the wellbore. A saline solution is then injected into the formation or reservoir at a velocity exceeding the critical fluid flow velocity. This saline solution is of a concentration sufficient to cause the fines or sand to be transferred and fixed deep within the formation or reservoir without plugging the formation, fracture, or wellbore. Hydrocarbonaceous fluids are then produced from the formation or reservoir at a velocity such that the critical flow velocity is not exceeded deep within the formation, fracture, or wellbore.
- FIGURE is a diagrammatic view of a foreshortened, perforated well casing at a location within an unconsolidated or loosely consolidated formation, illustrating vertical perforations, vertical fractures, and fracturing sands which have been injected into the formation to create the vertical fractures in accordance with the method of the present invention.
- the method of the present invention will work where there exists one wellbore from which the hydrocarbonaceous fluid is produced as well as where there are two different wellbores, i.e. an injection well and a production well.
- the method is also applicable to situations in which there exists liquid hydrocarbonaceous production or gaseous hydrocarbonaceous production. Under the proper circumstances, the method is equally applicable to removing hydrocarbonaceous fluids from tar sand formations.
- the formation is fractured in accordance with the method of the present invention to control sand production during oil or gas production.
- oil or gas production inflow will be linear into the fracture as opposed to radial into the well casing.
- a very small mesh sand 10 such as 100 mesh
- a proppant injection step fills the fracture, as shown at 13, with a larger mesh sand, preferably 40-60 mesh. It has been conventional practice to use such a 40-60 mesh sand or other similar quality material for gravel packing. However, for unconsolidated or loosely consolidated sands, a conventional 40-60 mesh gravel pack will not hold out the fines.
- the critical salinity rate and the critical fluid flow velocity of the formation is determined. This determination is made via methods known to those skilled in the art. One such method is a method as set forth in U.S. Pat. No. 3,839,899 issued to McMillen and which is hereby incorporated by reference.
- the critical rate of salinity decrease can be determined as referenced in an article authored by K. C. Khilar et al. entitled “Sandstone Water Sensitivity: Existence of a Critical Rate of Salinity Decrease for Particle Capture," which appeared in Chemical Engineering Science Volume 38, Number 5, pp. 789-800, 1983. This article is hereby incorporated by reference.
- Salts which can be employed in the practice of this invention include salts such as potassium chloride, magnesium chloride, calcium chloride, zinc chloride, and carbonates thereof, preferably sodium chloride.
- pressure is applied to the wellbore which causes the salt solution to be forced deep within the formation.
- the depth to which the salt solution is forced within the formation depends upon the pressure exerted, the permeability of the formation, and the characteristics of the formation as known to those skilled in the art.
- the critical fluid flow velocity of the fines is exceeded. This causes the fines, upon their release, to be transported in the saline solution to a location deep within the formation.
- the critical salinity rate is defined as the fastest rate of salt concentration decrease which will cause the formation fines or particles to become mobile in a controlled manner such that permeability damage is not observed.
- concentration of salt required to obtain the desired effect will vary from formation to formation. Also, the particular salt used will also vary in concentration due to the peculiar characteristics of the formation or reservoir.
- the critical fluid flow velocity is defined as the smallest velocity of the saline solution which will allow fines or small particles to be carried by the fluid and transported within the formation or reservoir. Lower velocities will not entrain particles and will permit particles to settle from the solution.
- the fines are removed to a location deep within the formation.
- the practice of this part of the method can begin when the salt concentration of injected fluid is at a predetermined concentration so that the fines will not be mobile and will adhere to the wellbore pores and critical flow channels.
- the salinity concentration of the injected fluid should then be lowered continually such that the critical rate of salinity decrease is not exceeded and the migration of the fines is kept below the level which would cause a plugging or "log-jam" effect in the flow channels, or fractures. This generally will occur when the salinity of the water surrounding the wellbore and in the formation has become mostly fresh water at a controlled rate.
- pressure is applied to the wellbore and the critical fluid flow velocity is exceeded which causes a reversal in the flow of the hydrocarbonaceous mixture continuing brackish water.
- Reversal of the fluid flow away from the wellbore and into the formation is continued for a time sufficient to cause the permeability and the critical flow channels near the wellbore to reach the desired level of permeability.
- the injection time required to reach the desired permeability level is a function of the critical fluid flow velocity, the predetermined schedule for salt concentration decrease, and the projected depth required to permanently deposit the fines. The net effect will be to continually migrate fines deep into the formation without plugging the formation. This migration of the fines away from the wellbore, the fracture, and into the formation continues until the critical flow area around the wellbore and the fracture has been cleaned up.
- the fines can be deposited to a depth in the formation where the rate of hydrocarbon production in the formation is below the critical fluid flow velocity which would cause the fines to migrate to the wellbore.
- the velocity of fluid flow deep within the formation is less than the velocity of hydrocarbon flow in and around the wellbore since the individual channels surrounding the wellbore contain all of the hydrocarbon production and emanate from all the channels in the formation. Because the volume of the hydrocarbonaceous material in and around the wellbore is a result of the volume of the hydrocarbonaceous material coming from the formation itself, the velocity of the hydrocarbonaceous material near the wellbore is much greater than the velocity of the hydrocarbonaceous material from further or deeper in the formation.
- the hydrocarbonaceous fluid production is set such that the predetermined level of the critical fluid flow velocity is not exceeded deep within the formation.
- An excessive production rate would cause an undesired migration of the deposited and pre-existing fines from deep within the formation.
- Maintenance of the hydrocarbonaceous fluid production at acceptable levels causes the fines to remain deep within the formation and immobile.
- the rate of hydrocarbon production can now be maintained at rates higher than those expected to cause fines migration under normal operating conditions.
- fines or particles can be removed from the formation, fracture, and area around the wellbore in a manner to prevent plugging the wellbore.
- a fixed concentration saline solution is injected into the formation.
- the saline solution is of sufficiently low concentration to cause some of the fines or particles to release from the walls and to be transported deep within the formation when the critical fluid flow velocity of the fines or particles is exceeded. Therefore, sufficient injection pressure is applied to the saline solution which causes the critical fluid flow velocity of the fines or particles to be exceeded. The released fines will deposit in the formation when the critical fluid flow velocity of the fines or particles is not exceeded.
- the injection pressure is reduced.
- a reduction in the injection pressure below the critical fluid flow velocity of the fines or particles causes the fines or particles to settle out of the solution.
- the fines adhere to the walls of the pores or channels within the formation.
- a saline solution of lower concentration than contained in the first injection, is injected into the formation.
- the critical fluid flow velocity of the fines or particles is exceeded, causing some of the fines or particles to become mobile. Said fines or particles are released from the formation in a quantity and at a velocity which will not cause a plugging of the critical fluid flow channels, or fractures, near the wellbore.
- the injection pressure is reduced and the fines settle out deep within the formation.
- another saline solution of a still lower concentration than contained in the second injection, is injected into the formation. After reaching the desired depth in the formation, pressure on the saline solution is reduced and the fines settle out.
- the cyclic procedure above can be modified.
- the injection periods are alternated with production periods. Initially, the injection period is maintained for a time sufficient to obtain a limited penetration into the formation.
- the saline solution concentration and fluid flow is maintained at a concentration and rate sufficient to remove the fines or particles without causing a "log-jam" effect or plugging.
- the saline solution containing the released fines is allowed to flow back into the wellbore and the fines are thus removed by pumping them to the surface.
- the salt concentration is reduced below the previous level.
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